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site, near the U.S. Ambassador's residence. This was encouraged by the South Korean government at the time, with the idea that this site would be the home to a new Chancery building. Full efforts to build there by the Americans were rebuffed by recently empowered local community groups who believed
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were more or less unknown and not welcome before that time. As China's power began to seriously wane in the 1800s, and as Japan's power, and increasing industrialization was on the rise, Korea began to make changes and make overtures to other nations.
472:, botched negotiations with the South Korean government, and political wrangling between the U.S. and South Korean governments over an appropriate site, have led to the lengthy delay in a new Chancery. In 1986 the U.S. purchased land, the 1786: The American Institute in Taiwan is ostensibly a public, non-profit organization to promote US-Taiwanese relations, but through State Department staffing & assistance, functions as an informal US diplomatic mission. 1604: 931: 1869: 1325: 1313: 3359: 919: 3379: 1549: 2793: 2551: 2173: 3330: 2279: 1771: 3276: 1744: 1739: 3354: 2405: 2023: 1671: 851: 785: 581: 3402: 3145: 2900: 824: 2501: 2393: 3300: 2513: 2417: 1729: 3337: 3073: 2699: 1874: 2178: 737: 3426: 2786: 2728: 2556: 2781: 2723: 2637: 2018: 2006: 3288: 3219: 2328: 2197: 1922: 473: 3061: 2805: 2752: 2577: 2539: 2431: 2352: 2340: 2161: 535:
are always present in front of the U.S. Embassy. In the 1990s, other U.S. diplomatic posts in Korea have been shut down, the last being the Consulate in Pusan in early 1999.
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Increasingly the U.S. Embassy has been the focus of demonstrations in Seoul. Whenever a controversial issue crops up involving the U.S. presence in Korea, a
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The U.S. Embassy in Seoul has traditionally played a key and prominent role in South Korea politics. Issues such as the ever-present danger from
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and ruin the aesthetics of the neighborhood. Current plans call for a new Chancery to be built on land to be relinquished by the
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Korea arrived in Seoul and a legation of sorts began operation. Soon a legation was run out of the Minister's residence, a
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began, and the U.S. Embassy in Seoul was evacuated. Seoul was captured by the North Korean forces by the end of June. The
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Attempts at building a new Chancery have been in the plans since about 1980, but funding issues by the
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In April 1951, United Nations forces retook Seoul for good. The Korean War ended in July 1953 in
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in the north. The U.S. recognized the government in Seoul in 1948, the same year
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The embassy has operated in Seoul continuously since the end of the Korean War.
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U.S. Marine raises the flag at the old American Legation building in Seoul.
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is the head of the diplomatic mission of the United States to South Korea.
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forces took control of Korea from the Japanese. The Americans set up an
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given to the U.S. in 1888 by a Korean royal, located just behind the
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in Seoul in the South, and while the Soviets set up a government in
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When North Korean troops invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, the
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A U.S. embassy was not again established in Korea until the end of
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building was built in 1962 and was initially an office for the
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will almost invariably occur at the U.S. Embassy. Several
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Korean government relations with nations not aligned with
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From 1948 the American embassy operated out of a leased
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of the U.S. Ambassador. The Habib House was built as a
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was opened in Busan (after 1999 the city changed its
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that construction at that site would disturb buried
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South Korea
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kr.usembassy.gov
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization
McCune–Reischauer
diplomatic mission
United States
Republic of Korea
embassy
diplomacy
South Korea–United States relations
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Korea
Qing China

Joseon dynasty
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